Wednesday, May 28, 2008

I've been busy as hell, and therefore not going out too much, which usually results in getting into trouble, observing or participating in crimes, taking illicit pictures, and consequently blogging.

But I feel compelled to post something, so my seven Google Reader subscribers don't think that I've disappeared. Hey, it may not sound like much, but it's up from three a month ago! And I figure for every Google Reader subscriber I've got, there are 1,453 who just have me bookmarked or use other readers.

So in the absence of time to think of or instigate anything interesting to write about, I thought I would share some fascinating information about this web site's readership. Below, you can see the statistics from the last month. Those are some pretty impressive numbers - on one single day, nearly 200 people read my blog! That means with the I potentially have about as much reach influence as, say, your average bullhorn wielding nutjob on the sidewalk downtown.

If you google for "remove spector pro" this site comes up 4th. Before a lot of people who actually sell software.

But if you search on "radiohead clusterfuck", I'm only 6th!

Anyway, back to my regularly scheduled neighborhood rambling. I actually did witness a crime this weekend (hard to go long without that happening in Columbia Heights) and did a lot of work on the house so I'll have something to say when I come up for air.

So you want to do some "Google bombing?" Well, that gives me an excuse to link to something cool, with tips on how to move a given page up the rankings. Yes, it's something political - moving articles about John McCain up the rankings so people who Google him will learn things they might not hear from the corporate media, which still swoon over him. But it also contains some tips that could be applied to the jamie-shannon "Radiohead clusterfuck" battle.

Other Stuff

Farm Fresh Meat

This began as a place to keep things that I didn't want to forget. I called it the "external brain drive," but I've since moved on to Farm Fresh Meat. Which doesn't mean anything in particular, as far as the blog is concerned, I just like the domain. This is a bit into a memoir of my thoughts and experiences about life in Washington, DC. I expect I'll look back on this in five years and wonder what the hell I was talking about.